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“There’s 4 billion people without internet access in the world,” Coillet-Matillon said. “Back then the whole process took 3 weeks, and as per Murphy's law would crash on day 20, sending us back to square one.”Ĭoillet-Matillon said the main reason for providing the archives is so that people without access to the internet can still have access to Wikipedia. “There have been many dumps released since October '18, but we failed every time,” Coillet-Matillon said. A new archive of the entire English Wikipedia by Kiwix hasn’t been available since October 2018. Kiwix makes and distributes archives of Wikipedias in all languages, but the English version is by far the largest. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia, has funded part of Kiwix’s work, Coillet-Matillon said. Anyone can come up with a request and if we can make a copy and it’s legal, it’s fine, and we distribute it.” “So we get stock exchange, we get Ted Talks. “Essentially, we’re trying to make a copy of the whole internet for offline use,” Coillet-Matillon said. Stephane Coillet-Matillon is the co-founder of Kiwix and told Motherboard the most recent archive has been available on the Kiwix website since early July. For its latest archive, Kiwix used Wikipedia’s database dump made on June 23. Wikipedia routinely makes a dump of its databases available publicly, which Kiwix then compresses into an archive so it can be more easily shared.